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← 129 Vt. 564 - State v. Mayer

State v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
3
states following
March 2007
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Chimel v. California · Stovall v. Denno · Sibron v. State of New York Peters

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Upon entering the motel room . . . it was an essential security function for the enforcement officers to search the accused and the area within his reach. It was equally reasonable that the protective search extend to the area within reach of his female companion. It appears that the weapon was within the grasp of both. Until the weapon was secured, either occupant of the room had the capability of impeding the arrests and endangering the lives of those present.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the area into which an arrestee might reach in order to grab a weapon or evidentiary items must, of course, be governed by a like rule.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.